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Ray Wu
Ray Jui Wu (Chinese: 吴瑞; 14 August 1928 – 10 February 2008) was a Chinese American biologist and educator. Wu was a pioneer of plant genetic engineering, and the former Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Molecular Genetics and Biology at Cornell University.〔Cornell University Cornell Chronicle ( Ray Wu dies at 79 )〕
==Biography==
Wu was the son of Hsien Wu, also a biologist. Wu was born in Beijing in China, his ancestral hometown was Fuzhou of Fujian Province. Wu was educated in the United States and obtained his PhD in biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1955.〔(CUSBEA创始人吴瑞因病去世 享年79岁 (Founder of CUSBEA Ray Wu dies at 79) ), from ''ScienceNet.com News''〕
Wu did important work in DNA sequencing and genetic engineering, and is regarded as one of founding fathers of plant genetic engineering. Wu also was an active educator, and created the CUSBEA (China-US Biochemistry Examination and Application). In 1999, at Cornell, Wu donated US$ 500,000 to establish the ''Ray Wu Graduate Fellowship'' in Molecular Biology and Genetics to support biology graduate students.〔(Molecular biologist Ray Wu's gift will endow a graduate fellowship )〕
Wu spent most of his scientific career at Cornell. Wu was an Academician of Academia Sinica (Taiwan), and a Foreign Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering.〔(Ray Wu, as remembered by a former student )〕 Wu's former student Jack W. Szostak was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.〔(The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 )〕
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